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This Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into
by, between and among McCoy Corporation d/b/a
OneOnlineCommunity.com, Pontiac, Illinois USA (“McCoy”)
and the Client who activates an OneOnlineCommunity
entity/module/web site account (“Client”), beginning at
the date and time of activation of a Client OOC Account.
Recitals
McCoy is engaged in the business of developing and
maintaining web site systems utilizing the
OneOnlineCommunity.com system , hereinafter referred to
as the “Services”, and desires to provide services for
Client.
The Client desires to have an OneOnlineCommunity.com web
site account, hereinafter referred to as the “OOC
Account.”
IT IS THEREFORE AGREED:
1.0 Definitions: For purposed of this Agreement
1.1 “System” shall mean the entire
OneOnlineCommunity.com web site system, including but
not limited to all
elements, content, services, features, data, news,
images, graphics, photos, Client OOC Accounts, and other content and
services.
1.2 “Subscribers” and “Users” and “End-Users” shall mean
end-users that access the Services.
1.3 “Members” shall mean end-users that have signed-up
with OneOnlineCommunity.com as an OneOnlineCommunity.com
Member.
1.4 “Module Admin” shall mean the primary user who has
access to the Client’s account and has the ability to
administer the OOC Account.
2.0 Preparation of the OOC Account
2.1 McCoy shall provide available and included services
of the OOC Account to Client as outlined by the type of
OOC Account provided.
2.2 Client shall provide all data, information, photos,
images, graphics, content, documents, maps, links,
sounds, videos, news, and other content for use on their
OOC Account.
3.0 Grant of Rights
3.1 The Client grants to McCoy and its successors,
representatives, and assigns, sole and exclusive right
to sponsor and sell sponsorships on the Services and OOC
Account in the form of advertisements, sponsorships,
ads, promotional content, and all other forms of
promotions and advertisements that might become
available in the future. Client shall not allow
any other entity to sponsor, co-sponsor, provide
sponsorships for said Services or OOC Account in any
form, including advertising, underwriting, or name
sponsorship. Client shall not allow any other
content from third parties, or otherwise allow use of
the Client’s OOC Account for any other purpose to any
other entity.
3.2 The Client grants to McCoy and its successors,
representatives, and assigns, sole and exclusive right
to use the Client’s name, likeness, photos, images,
description, and location in products and services
developed by McCoy for sale, marketing, promotion, or
distribution in conjunction with the System or Services.
4.0 Ownership
4.0 All content, photos, images, information, services,
scripts, code, advertisements, graphics, features,
ability, and other material or services provided by
McCoy shall remain the property and ownership of McCoy.
All technologies, content, copyrighted materials,
programming, equipment, and materials developed and
provided by McCoy shall remain the property of McCoy.
4.1 All products created for sale, marketing, or
distribution by McCoy shall remain the property and
ownership of McCoy. All technologies, content,
copyrighted materials, programming, equipment, and
materials developed and provided by McCoy shall remain
the property of McCoy.
4.2 All information, content, graphics, data, news, or
other content provided by Client shall remain the
property of Client, with the exception of any content,
graphics, data, news, or other content or elements
created by McCoy for use by the Client or for use on the
Client’s OOC Account.
4.3 All data collected by System, including but not
limited to user statistics, advertising statistics,
usage, availability, user activity, Client activity, and
any and all Client, System and user activity and
statistics shall remain the property of McCoy.
5.0 Warranty and Indemnity
5.1 The Client represents and warrants to McCoy that the
Client’s OOC Account and all activity and content
provided by Client or Client’s users shall contain no
defamatory or unlawful matter and will in no way
infringe upon the copyright or violate the proprietary
rights of any person whomsoever. The Client agrees to
indemnify and hold McCoy harmless from any suit, demand,
or claim made against McCoy by reason of any defamatory
right, and Client further agrees to pay any judgment or
reasonable settlement offer resulting from any such
suit, demand, or claim, and to pay any reasonable
attorneys' fees incurred by McCoy in defending against
such suit, demand, or claim, although Client will not
indemnify McCoy for any suits, demands, or claims either
arising from the negligence or willful conduct of McCoy
or relating to liability for which a statutory
safe-harbor has been provided.
5.2 Clients agrees that all content and other
information provided by Client shall follow and abide by
any additional agreements and Terms of Use which may be
published by McCoy as part of Services provided by McCoy
on the System or the OOC Account. Any such
agreements and Terms of Use shall become part of this
agreement and may be modified from time to time without
notice to Client.
5.2 McCoy represents and warrants to Client that the
technologies and related items and services provided
directly by McCoy as part of the System shall contain no
defamatory or unlawful matter and will in no way
infringe upon the copyright or violate the proprietary
rights of any person whomsoever or any rights of
publicity or privacy and shall comply with applicable
laws, statutes, ordinances, and regulations. McCoy
agrees to indemnify and hold the Client, including its
users and affiliates, harmless from any suit, demand, or
claim made against Client by reason of any breach of
McCoy’s warranties and representations, and McCoy
further agrees to pay any judgment or reasonable
settlement offer resulting from any such suit, demand,
or claim, and to pay any reasonable attorneys' fees
incurred by the Client for defending against such suit,
demand, or claim.
5.4 Services and products provided by McCoy are provided
AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND TO CLIENT,
SUBSCRIBER OR ANY THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF: 1)
MERCHANTABILITY; 2) FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE; 3)
EFFORT TO ACHIEVE PURPOSE; 4) QUALITY; 5) ACCURACY; 6)
NON-INFRINGEMENT; 7) QUIET ENJOYMENT; AND 8) TITLE.
CLIENT AGREES THAT ANY EFFORTS BY MCCOY TO MODIFY ITS
GOODS OR SERVICES SHALL NOT BE DEEMED A WAIVER OF THESE
LIMITATIONS, AND THAT ANY WARRANTIES SHALL NOT BE DEEMED
TO HAVE FAILED OF THEIR ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. CLIENT
FURTHER AGREES THAT MCCOY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO CLIENT,
SUBSCRIBER, MEMBER, USER OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY LOSS
OF PROFITS, LOSS OF USE, INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS, OR
ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHETHER UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR
OTHERWISE, EVEN IF MCCOY WAS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES OR WAS GROSSLY NEGLIGENT.
Some jurisdictions do not permit the exclusion or
limitation of liability for consequential or incidental
damages, and, as such, some portion of the above
limitation may not apply to Client. In such
jurisdictions, McCoy’s liability is limited to the
greatest extent permitted by law.
5.5 MCCOY SHALL IN NO EVENT HAVE OBLIGATIONS OR
LIABILITIES TO CLIENT, SUBSCRIBER, MEMBER, USER OR ANY
OTHER PERSON, BUSINESS, ORGANIZATION OR ANY THIRD PARTY
FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OR USE OR INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER BASED ON AGREEMENT,
TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY
OTHER THEORY OR FORM OF ACTION, EVEN IF MCCOY HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF, ARISING OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE SALE, DELIVERY, USE, REPAIR OR
PERFORMANCE OF SERVICES, OR ANY FAILURE OR DELAY IN
CONNECTION WITH ANY OF THE FOREGOING.
5.6 Client agrees to indemnify and save McCoy harmless
from any liabilities (including any costs, expenses and
reasonable attorneys' fees) that are finally awarded
against McCoy because of any claim or demand that may be
made against McCoy based on Client's negligence or fault
or any duty of Client in the marketing, use of the OOC
Account or Services provided by McCoy. Client shall have
the right to defend McCoy against any such claim or
demand.
5.7 Client agrees and understands that the System
provides services and abilities to other entities and
third parties and that these entities or parties may
provide their own direct or indirect content,
information, news, images, ideas, concepts, opinions,
and other content directly to the System, and that McCoy
shall in no event have any obligations or liabilities to
Client for any content or information provided by these
entities or parties.
5.8 Client agrees and understands that the System or any
part of the System or OOC Account may be terminated,
changed, altered, modified, or removed at any time
without notice to the Client.
5.9 Client agrees and understands that McCoy may add,
modify, or impose additional restrictions or rules for
OOC Accounts and/or Client, and Client agrees to abide
by such restrictions or rules.
5.10 Client agrees to not perform, post, link to,
provide, or otherwise participate in any activity on the
System or OOC Account that may be illegal or unethical.
5.11 Client agrees to not post, publish, provide, or
otherwise release any comments, information, opinions,
or statements on the System or OOC Account that in any
way harm the reputation of the System or McCoy or any
other entity that participates on the System in any
capacity, including, but not limited to, OOC
Representatives, content providers, advertisers,
businesses, and individuals.
6.0 Compensation, Fees, and Costs
6.1 McCoy shall provide services rendered in maintaining
and providing an OOC Account and related Services for a
service fee to the Client for the Account as provided by
McCoy. The services provided may change from time
to time without notice to Client.
6.2 Client shall not charge for the public or users to
view or access to the Client’s OOC Account,
information, services, or content as made available by
the System or Client’s OOC Account.
6.3 McCoy reserves the right to market, sell, or provide
related products and services to the public within the
System, the Client’s OOC Account, or at any other
location, including on other web sites.
6.4 The Client grants to the McCoy and its successors,
representatives, and assigns, sole and exclusive right
to market and sell products related to the System.
6.5 Additional services, customization, custom features,
changes, modifications, and other work requested by
Client that are not part of the Client’s OOC Account
package may incur additional fees or costs to Client as
deemed solely by McCoy. Any such services must be
agreed to in writing and paid for by Client prior to any
work being performed or features being available to
Client. McCoy retains all ownership for all
additional services, features, or customization work,
and such services and features become part of the System
and owned by McCoy without compensation to Client.
7.0 Loss or Destruction of Information
7.1 Force Majeure: If the performance of
this Agreement or any obligation hereunder, except the
making of payments hereunder, is prevented, restricted
or interfered with by reason of fire, flood, earthquake,
explosion, act of terrorism or other casualty or
accident; strikes or labor disputes; inability to
procure parts, supplies or power; war or other violence;
any law, order, proclamation, regulation, ordinance,
demand or requirement of any government agency; or any
other act or condition whatsoever beyond the reasonable
control of the affected party, the party so affected,
upon giving prompt notice to the other party, shall be
excused from such performance to the extent of such
prevention, restriction or interference; provided,
however, that the party so affected shall take all
reasonable steps to avoid or remove such causes of
nonperformance and shall resume performance hereunder
with dispatch whenever such causes are removed.
7.2 McCoy shall not be responsible for making backups of
the System or Client’s data or Client’s OOC Account.
McCoy shall not be responsible for any damages arising
from not backing up the System, or any damages from act
or acts listed in paragraph 7.1 above, as stated in said
paragraph.
7.3 Client agrees to be solely responsible for any
backups or copies of content, data, information, images,
or other content as provided by the Client or that is
part of the Client’s OOC Account, and that McCoy
provides no services related in protecting, storage of,
or otherwise securing the Client’s content or OOC
Account information, data, statistics, or content.
8.0 Confidential Relationship
8.1 McCoy endeavors to protect the privacy of Client’s
non-public information. McCoy acknowledges that
Client is the sole owner of the information provided by
Client and all information provided now, or subsequently
revealed to McCoy, under this Agreement. McCoy
further acknowledges that all such information
(including but not limited to pricing, systems, or the
like used by Client or its users in their business) are
trade secrets or confidential information of Client and
that they are revealed to McCoy in confidence solely for
the limited purpose of enabling McCoy to develop,
maintain and provide additional services for the System
and other services.
8.2 McCoy shall not reveal any trade secrets or
confidential information of Client to any other person
or entity without the express written consent of Client.
McCoy shall not use these trade secrets or confidential
information in connection with any other business or
venture, or in any other capacity, during and after the
term of this Agreement without the express written
consent of Client.
8.3 McCoy shall use its best efforts, which shall be at
least commercially reasonable, to protect Client’s
information from unauthorized disclosure.
8.4 The Client acknowledges that McCoy is the sole owner
of the System, technologies, programming, code,
functions, features, ideas, concepts, scripts, graphics,
layouts, elements, and information, and all information
provided now, or subsequently revealed to the System and
Client, under this Agreement. Client further
acknowledges that all such information are trade secrets
or confidential information of McCoy and that they are
revealed to the Client in confidence. The Client
acknowledges and agrees to not disclose, use, record,
sell, transfer, store, copy, or otherwise communicate
any programming, code, ideas, features, functions,
concepts, layouts, elements, or any other information,
content, data, or materials used by McCoy or the System,
and that any information on how the System or Services
by McCoy works is considered trade secrets or
confidential information. The Client acknowledges
and agrees to not use any said trade secrets learned by
using System, the OOC Account, or other related Services
or Products by McCoy for any purpose including but not
limited to the development or designing of a system or
other related or unrelated purposes for Client or any
third party.
9.0 Termination
9.1 If McCoy determines that the demand for the System
is insufficient to justify continued operation, McCoy
may terminate this Agreement at any time without notice
to Client.
9.2 McCoy may terminate this Agreement at any time
without notice to Client and for any reason. McCoy
shall have no obligations or liability to Client or any
user for termination of this agreement.
9.3 Client may terminate this Agreement at any time with
at least 10 (ten) days written notice to McCoy.
Upon termination by Client, Client shall hold McCoy
harmless for any claims of any kind as a result of said
termination.
9.4 Upon termination of this Agreement for any reason,
McCoy retains ownership of all technologies contained
within the System, and Services and access provided to
the Client by McCoy shall terminate.
10.0 Assignment
10.1 This Agreement may not be assigned by either party
without the prior written consent of the other party,
but, subject to the foregoing limitation, it shall inure
to the benefit of and be binding on the executors,
administrators, heirs, and assigns of Client and upon
the successors and assigns of McCoy.
10.2 This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the
State of Illinois, county of Livingston.
10.3 If any action at law or in equity is necessary to
enforce or interpret the terms of this Agreement, the
prevailing party shall be entitled to reasonable
attorneys' fees, costs, and necessary disbursements in
addition to any other proper relief.
11.0 Miscellaneous
11.1 Entire Agreement: This Agreement constitutes
the entire Agreement and understanding between the
parties concerning the subject matter hereof and
supersedes all prior agreements, negotiations and
understandings of the parties. No representation,
promise, modification or amendment shall be binding upon
either party as a warranty or otherwise, unless in
writing and signed on behalf of each party by a duly
authorized representative.
11.2 Severability: If for any reason a court of
competent jurisdiction finds any provision of this
Agreement to be unenforceable, that provision of the
Agreement will be enforced to the maximum extent
permissible so as to affect the intent of the parties,
and the remainder of this Agreement will continue in
full force and effect.
11.3 Notices: All notices, requests, consents and
other communications required or permitted under this
Agreement shall be in writing and shall be sent by
registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, or
transmitted by telegram or TWX if confirmed by such
mailing, to Client and McCoy at their respective
addresses set forth on the signature page hereto. Either
party may change its address by written notice to the
other.
11.4 No Waiver: The failure by either party to
enforce at any time any of the provisions of this
Agreement, or to exercise any election or option
provided herein, shall in no way be construed as a
waiver of such provisions or options, nor in any way to
affect the validity of this Agreement or any part
thereof, or the right of either party thereafter to
enforce each and every such provision.
11.5 No Other Warranty or Representation: Client
hereby acknowledges that it has not entered into this
Agreement in reliance upon any warranty or
representation by any person or entity except for the
warranties or representations specifically set forth
herein.
11.6 Attorneys' Fees: If any legal action is
brought to enforce the rights of either party hereunder,
the prevailing party shall be entitled to receive its
attorneys' fees and court costs in addition to any other
relief it may receive.
11.7 Public Announcement: This Agreement and/or
its contents is not to be publicly announced without
prior written consent from Client and McCoy.
11.8 Language: This Agreement is in the English
language, only, which language shall be controlling in
all respects, and all versions hereof in any other
language shall be for accommodation only and shall not
be binding upon the parties hereto. All communications
made or given pursuant to this Agreement shall be in the
English language.
11.9 Arbitration: Any claim, dispute or
controversy arising out of or in connection with or
relating to this Agreement or the breach or alleged
breach thereof shall be submitted by the parties to
binding arbitration in the City of Pontiac, State of
Illinois, county of Livingston, United States of
America, before a single arbitrator agreeable to both
parties. If the parties cannot agree on a designee
within 2 weeks after arbitration is requested in writing
by either of them, the arbitration shall proceed in
Pontiac, Livingston, United States of America, before a
single arbitrator appointed by the American Arbitration
Association and under the rules then obtaining of that
Association. The award shall be rendered in such form
that judgment may be entered thereon in any court having
jurisdiction thereof.
11.10 Headings: Headings used in this Agreement
are for ease of reference only and shall not be used to
interpret any aspect of this Agreement.
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